Revolutions in Science: Plato to NATO

HPSC-X102 — Spring 2025

Course Description
This class provides an introduction to the history of science by offering a basic outline of some of the major intellectual, social, and institutional transformations in the sciences across time. We will focus both on the life sciences, including the discovery of the circulation of the blood and the origin of the cell theory, for example, and the physical sciences, including Copernicus and Newton. We will pay special attention to the rise and changing role of experimentation from Antiquity (the ancient Greco-Roman worlds) to the present. There are no requirements to take this class.